FWD.us is playing an old Washington game: hit both sides of the aisle to get what you want. In this case, it's buying ads for right-wing candidates who happen to also support "immigration reform" of some kind. Billionaire investor Elon Musk has had enough.

It can't be easy to work at Zynga, a fallen star whose games are out outmoded and share price is slipping. I guess one day you wake up and just decide, Fuck it, today will be the day I organized a footrace through NYC traffic.

Kirk McDonald, CEO of digital advertising firm PubMatic, took to the WSJ's op-ed section to deliver one message: he's the coolest fuckin' boss you'll never meet, and it's your fault, trembling college senior, that you're not going to be his next employee.

AllThingsD's Liz Gannes says Google, frustrated by the fact that no one really cares about NFC or wireless payments yet, was preparing to just throw up its hands and make a plastic card. Like all of the other plastic cards we've been using since the advent of the plastic card. Now that plan's over with.

YouTube made Chad Hurley and Steve Chen rich as Saudi kings after they sold it off to Google. They had the chance (and money!) to build anything they wanted—and they did, a brand new company called AVOS Systems. Two years later, and it seems the YouTube duo were a one hit wonder.

Babblr is a simple idea: an IM add-on for Tumblr, so you can chat with your GIF and pro-ana pals without leaving the site. It proved to be a popular idea, too: so many people downloaded Babblr that its servers crumpled. Now the team has a solution! They're going to spam you and ask for money. Uh. No.